Journey on the Plain

Journey on the Plain

Journey on the Plain

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Journey on the Plain

1995

0h 35m

6.3(11 votes)

Drama

Overview

Revisits of locations on the Great Hungarian Plain - the puszta - that were used in Tarr's Sátántangó and Werckmeister harmóniák. Recitations of short lyric poems by Hungary's national poet Sándor Petofi.

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Mihály Víg

Mihály Víg

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Directed by: Béla Tarr
Written by: Sándor Petőfi

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